Taking an online class through The Academy of Art in San Francisco in composition in painting, which so far has been fantastic. Very traditional, learning tons of information that I'm going to be able to bring to my students. Quite wild to take a class online...have to be self motivated to put in the work, there's no actual class so you have to figure out the time to do it...it's really up to you to make it successful, get as much or as little out of it as you can. This was from the first assignment, to do a "pattern painting" from ambient light. It's not about contour lines, but more about the shapes that the colors make...more complicated then that, but that's the short explanation. Since I don't paint all that often, I have to "relearn" it as I do it, and it really is a pleasure seeing how it takes shape. That's whats so amazing about painting- one day a piece you make can be a masterpiece, another day a piece can be crap, you never really know what to expect. Plus it takes TIME, not like photography which is instant gratification- it takes TIME to draw, to paint, to get the proportions correctly and angles right and shading not too much or too little...but at the same time it's so gratifying when you get it right!
